This month, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced that the state will build up a supply of medications used in abortions. New Jersey joins other blue states, including Massachusetts and California, in stockpiling mifepristone in anticipation of Trump’s new administration.
Vice President JD Vance led a list Republican luminaries who voiced strong agreement with the anti-abortion positions of participants at the annual March for Life amid cold and snowy weather Friday in Washington,
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision in 2022, March for Life organizers have also encouraged anti-abortion activists to focus their attention on statehouses, where decisions over the legality of abortion are now being made.
Trump, 78, issued a presidential memorandum reinstating the so-called Mexico City Policy, which prevents the federal government from funding groups that finance abortion procedures in foreign
In the early days of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been cagey about where his administration will take abortion policy.
The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy known as the “global gag rule” that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented. Already, contractors that receive U.S. foreign aid money cannot use it to directly support abortion services. But they can tell people the option is available.
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Aboard Air Force One, while en route to view wildfire devastation in California, President Trump signed a series of executive actions aimed at preventing the use of federal taxpayer dollars
The bill would require that infants born alive after an attempted abortion receive the same protection as any newborn baby, and threaten medical providers with prison time for failing to resuscitate them.
Today, we can confidently say that there is no state in the United States with more pro-life or protective pro-life laws than Idaho,” a speaker said.
Some blame the groups that pushed Amendment 3 of taking a path of least resistance to get the ballot measure passed.